Event Calendar

Studio Recital: Students of Solomia Soroka

Goshen College violin students in the studio of Associate Professor of Music
Solomia Soroka will perform a free recital of sonatas by Baroque composer
Heinrich Iganz Franz Biber on Tuesday, February 12, 2013 in Rieth Recital Hall.
The recital is free and open to the public.

Soroka will perform along with Goshen College string students Katie Miller,
Maggie Yoder, Brisa Peacock, Sam Smucker, Hillary Harder, Josh Yoder, Martina
Pudelova, Lisa Horst, and Garrett Ahlgrim. The students will be accompanied on
harpsichord by Goshen College music department staff accompanist Christine
Larson Seitz.

This unique recital will feature the Rosary Sonatas by renowned Baroque
violinist Heinrich Franz Biber. Each sonata of this cycle corresponds with a bead
on the rosary and depicts an event of the lives of Jesus Christ and Virgin Mary.
The sonatas constitute one of the virtuosic high points of the Baroque violin
repertoire. In addition to the daring technical and contrapuntal demands of
Biber's writing, each sonata employs a different tuning of the violin's strings,
known as scordatura. This collection of Rosary (or Mystery) Sonatas survives in a
manuscript copy with engravings accompanying each piece portraying each
depicted scene, and these engravings will be displayed at the recital.